Members of five trade unions employed at the Port Waratah Coal Services shipment facility for coal exports at Newcastle port in eastern Australia have called a four-hour strike next Wednesday in an escalation of their industrial dispute ...
Tags: PWCS, Coal Terminals
H&M publicly commits to support the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, initiated by IndustryALL and UNI Global Union. The parties will be committed to the goal of a safe and sustainable Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment (RMG) ...
Tags: H&M, Building Safety Agreement
May 9, 2013 - Skilled worker training centres that are a partnership of labour and management are found to be more successful in helping apprentices become journeypersons, says a new study commissioned by the Ontario Construction ...
Workers at the Port of Hong Kong have voted to call off their industrial action after accepting an improved wage offer and promises of further negotiations on working conditions – as well as an assurance that there will be no ...
An end to a two week-old strike at Chile's largest coal mine appears close at hand after one of two unions involved agreed to return to work Thursday. In a statement Friday, Mina Invierno said the union representing maintenance workers at ...
Tags: Coal Mine Strike, Coal Mine
A majority of the 13 Hunter Valley coal producers using Port Waratah Coal Services' export facilities at Newcastle in eastern Australia have volunteered to cut their contracted capacity for coal shipments for the rest of this year, PWCS ...
Tags: Coal Producers, PWCS Terminals
8:02 am, April 20, Ya'an, Sichuan Province, a strong earthquake happened. The disaster shows no mercy but people are charitable. Although Sichuan is thousands of miles away from Shanghai, the two places are close at heart. For days, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, yaan
A decades-long push to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients in the United States received a significant boost Wednesday [Apr. 24, 2013], when bipartisan bills on the issue were simultaneously proposed ...
The financially strapped Peugeot Citroen group (PSA) views its alliance with General Motors as a must if it’s to survive long term and become a global player. Speaking to the media at last week’s launch of the Peugeot 2008 SUV ...
Tags: Peugeot Citroen&GM, PSA Survival
Reportedly, ArcelorMittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal said that high labor and energy costs made ArcelorMittal less competitive and regretted the closure of furnaces. He said the energy costs to come down like the United States and Germany will be a ...
Tags: Energy, Transportation
Representatives of three Puducherry-based textile mill workers have urged the Central Government to provide funds for upgradation of the mills, which according to them have huge potential for employment generation and to aid economic ...
Tags: Puducherry Textile, Textile
SABIC announced Thursday a restructuring program in Europe that includes the closure of certain assets and a net reduction of approximately 1,050 jobs, one-third contracting staff and two-thirds SABIC employees, the company said in a ...
Cambodian garment exports are expected to grow in 2013 with the increasing foreign investments along with focus on new market including Japan and China, according to the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) In 2012, ...
Tags: garment exports, garment
The on-going economic crisis poses a serious challenge to the dialogue between workers' and employers' representatives and governments according to a report published today by the European Commission. The report shows that recent government ...
Welsh Country Foods (WCF) is closing its lamb processing business in the Island of Anglesey, UK, with immediate effect, a move which will result in 310 job losses. The plant closure comes after the completion of a 90-day consultation ...